And damn glad to be,

First off, I want to thank everyone for the well wishes and prayers.

There is zero doubt in my mind that they didn’t help, they actually helped immensely as it turned out the surgeons changed their plans at the last minute and it wound up they didn’t have to take the big poker and ram a tunnel from the right to the left side.

That would have doubled my hospital stay and recovery both.

They came up with a plan to go through my left groin with a thin wire up to the blockage, turn the wire somehow and go through between the inner wall and the middle wall of the artery and drop in a stent in front of the blockage, thus bypassing it. They then took the big metal poker and rammed a tunnel down my upper left thigh to just above the knee and installed an artificial artery down to the knee to bypass the blockage I had in my mid thigh on that side.

10 hours of surgery with 2 cardiovascular specialists and 2 units of blood.

Post Op was an absolute nightmare and I can only Thank God that I can’t remember a bunch of it right now.

Freezing, my teeth chattering uncontrollably and I was dying for some water but they wouldn’t give me any for what seemed an eternity.

Mercifully I passed back out several times but I did finally get some ice chips and sips of water while they waited to take me upstairs.

So I have 2, Four inch incisions being held together with some serious staples. I have massive bruising all down the inside of my forearm from all the needles and blood collecting ports. I also have massive bruising around my inner leg and around my waist on the right side and all they did there was stick a wire in to help with the other side. Even my Junk has bruising all over.

My upper, inner left thigh is very swollen and it’s going to be one giant bruise here in a day or two.

But I’m alive and very grateful to be so.

The doctor is very pleased at the increased amount of blood flow all the way to my toes and inner ankle and although it took a few days, that nagging 24/7 ache I had at the outer shin muscle on my left side isn’t there anymore.

This whole thing isn’t some kind of cure all but if I can get around even a little better without being in pain all the time I’ll take it.

I can already see that there is going to be a long rehab and healing process but I’ll take that as it comes.

I am in no way up to speed so posting on my part is going to be sporadic and right now I would personally like to thank CederQ for posting while I was gone and keeping the lights on.

Ya done good buddy.

Thank You.

I will cut it short here, I am still pretty wiped out from all the activity getting out of there and then getting settled back in here at home. The Wifely Unit is all over it so I am going to hit Send and take a nap.